Midnight Fantastic Four #1 // Review
Reed RIchards is brilliant. There’s no questioning that. The New York Institute of Technology has no doubt of that. The problem doesn't lie in his vision. It doesn't lie in his obsession with research and the bat sort of thing. They have other problems with Reed Richards, though. And so they're going to have to let him go. This would be particularly devastating for him. We're not for the fact that he was kind of distracted by a certain equation that he's been working on. Thus begins Midnight Fantastic Four #1. Writer Benjamin Percy establishes a whole new iteration of the classic superhero team with artist Kev Walker.
Richards has engaged in “indiscretions.” He’s also been grossly negligent of his teaching duties. So they have to let him go. Immediately. To make matters worse, his equipment and his research belong to the institute. So he's not able to hold onto it. And, of course, all of this would be much more of a blow to him or not for the fact that he's been very, very distracted. Focusing on a reality of other dimensions and the various other dangers is going to have that effect on anyone. That certainly he's not going to let something like an unemployment to stop him from continuing his research.
When Jack Kirby created the fantastic four in the early 1960s, the United States was very much involved in the manned exploration of space. They cancel later there's much more of a fascination with quantum physics and other theoretical worlds. And so it makes sense that there would be a certain kind of horror in the idea of being in the presence of another world. And endless infinity of infinity. There's a kind of madness there. And so if you're going to be going for a darker look for this particular team, you're going to be looking into the scarier end of contemporary physics. Percy has framed the basic foundation of the series quite well.
Walker how's little trouble, engaging in the darker end of things. There's a fantastic pulpy feeling for.Kirby’s early 1960s work that has its own gravity. Casting it in more of a dark and realistic sort of art style really service, the overall mood and town of the series quite well. And admitted it all, there’s Reed.. a guy who was just obsessive. Walker does a good job of exploring the disjointed nature of this guy's psyche as he gets lost in the potential of other worlds. There's a lot of nuance that's being written into Reed’s face by Walker.
Horror was never that far fromFantastic Fourr’s basic DNA. They concept of a scientist in a metal mask. Who's also an expert in the dark arts of magic was a essential villain. As was an alien entity that could consume the life force off of an entire planet. The horror was always there. It was just never focused on exclusively. Kirby I had too much story to tell. It's interesting to see the darker aspects of it focused on more exclusively. It could really turn into something remarkable.
